Pre-season

With Arsenal's first pre-season clash against Sydney FC set to take place in just five day's time, we look at all you need to know about the match.

The Arsenal first team play their opening match of pre-season against Colorado Rapids on Monday night/Tuesday morning.

Arsene Wenger has admitted he deliberately played a number of players with no experience in certain positions to see how they coped with it against Chelsea.

Eddie Nketiah is ready to play for Arsenal regularly as the club's man of the moment gets ready to grab his chance.

Arsenal continued their pre-season training in China ahead of tomorrow's game against Bayern Munich.

This week, Matthew and Anita ponder the conclusions that can be taken from Arsenal's pre-season, rank transfer priorities and remember a time when we had more than one creative player on the pitch.

Petr Cech is 'glad to be back' training at London Colney ahead of our pre-season match against RC Lens on Friday.

Olivier Giroud has revealed his excitement ahead of next week's pre-season tour in Sydney, citing his fond memories of matches against Australia at international level and the chance to meet Arsenal fans as the reason he 'can't wait'.

Thanks to Arsenal's pre-season matches in Sydney, ANZ Stadium's annual aggregate has risen to $1.14m.

Mikel Arteta, Arsenal's manager, suggests that the club's new acquisition, Kai Havertz, could be utilised in a variety of positions in the upcoming season.

With the Emirates Cup taking place this weekend, Arsene Wenger claims that he's happy to have it back.

It was an okay game with an okay result with Granit Xhaka integrating into the team straight away and others not showing up.

Arsenal face Manchester City in the final clash of their pre-season tour before the Premier League kicks off against Liverpool on August 14th.

Arsenal continued their pre-season preparations with a penalty shoot-out win over Bayern Munich.

Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain expressed his surprise at the magnitude of Arsenal's clash against the MLS All-Stars after the Gunners won 2-1.

Hibs will apply to have up to 5,000 supporters at Easter Road for the visit of Arsenal for their pre-season friendly in July.

Arsenal face Chelsea on Sunday in the traditional curtain raiser for the new season, the Community Shield.

Danny Welbeck wants Arsenal to keep their late 2016/17 momentum going by beating Chelsea on Sunday.

Nacho Monreal is excited to visit Australia for Arsenal's pre-season tour in July.

The FA have announced a new penalty format for the Community Shield match between Arsenal and Chelsea on Sunday, should the game be tied after 90 minutes.

Arsenal’s u14s lost 2-0 to Red Bulls Academy in the International Champions Cup Futures tournament in the US

Arsène Wenger has talked about how the focus will change in the next couple of pre-season friendlies when Arsenal play against Bayern Munich and Chelsea.

While most of the Arsenal squad are relishing the chance to face Didier Drogba in our clash against the MLS All-Stars in the USA, Nacho Monreal is looking forward to playing against another player.

Arsenal play Barcelona on Sunday evening in their final pre-season game and the starting lineup could well be the one that starts against Newcastle when the Premier League returns next week.

Plenty of youngsters were given some minutes during our 1-1 pre-season draw against Ligue 2 side Lens on Friday evening, so how did they do?

Join Stephen Bradley as he discusses the addition of Albert Sambi Lokonga from Anderlecht to Arsenal's squad for next season and how he brings just what Arsenal have been missing for years.

Theo Walcott has said that the MLS is close to Premier League standard as he tries to lead the Arsenal charm offensive in America by saying things we all think isn’t true.

Arsene Wenger held his first press conference of the season on Friday morning and gave updates on who’s in and who’s out in the Arsenal injury hokey-kokey.

The expectation is that Folarin Balogun will compete for a place in the Arsenal first-team next season after being assessed in pre-season.

Antonio Conte has admitted that his Chelsea side are 'tired' ahead of their Community Shield clash with Arsenal.

As Stephen Bradley already wrote this morning, we shouldn't read too much into what was partly an exhibition game for the MLS and partly an exercise in developing match fitness for Arsenal.

Ahead of today’s friendly between Bayern Munich and Arsenal at the Shanghai Stadium, both managers have been holding talks.

Several first-team players are set to feature in an Arsenal XI team to play Boreham Wood tomorrow.

Well that was one of the few penalty shoot-outs I've actually enjoyed.

Arsenal have announced another pre-season friendly with an Arsenal XI set to take on St Albans City FC after the game was initially cancelled.

With one season over and another new one soon to start, we have a look at where Arsenal will play during their pre-season preparations.

Arsenal played another behind-closed-doors friendly today, as they continue their pre-season preparations with a match against Premier League Watford.

Alexandre Lacazette made his debut for Arsenal against Sydney FC on Thursday and promptly got himself on the Arsenal scoresheet.

Legend Freddie Ljungberg and Sol Campbell both visited Sydney recently to promoted Arsenal's pre-season tour.

It might only be pre-season but it's never pleasant to lose, is it?